260 Pages
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Routledge
253 Pages
by
Routledge
253 Pages
by
Routledge
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Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children.The papers that Best has gathered here... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: Troubling Children: Children and Social Problems; II: Children in Societal Crises; 2: A Threatened Generation: Impediments to Children’s Quality of Life in Kenya; 3: When Parents Discuss the Price of Bread: Albanian Children and the Economic Crisis; III: Pregnancy and Infancy; 4: Little Strangers: Pregnancy Conduct and the Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment; 5: “Crack Babies” and the Politics of Reproduction and Nurturance; IV: Families and Children; 6: Ritual, Magic, and Educational Toys: Symbolic Aspects of Toy Selection; 7: The Changing Meanings of Spanking; 8: The Positive Functions of Rock and Roll Music for Children and Their Parents; V: Schools and Children; 9: Normalizing Daycare—Normalizing the Child: Daycare Discourse in Popular Magazines, 1900–1990; 10: The Medicalization and Demedicalization of School Refusal: Constructing an Educational Problem in Japan; VI: Children’s Perspectives on Social Problems; 11: If We Don’t Do Anything Now, There Won’t Be Anything Left: Categories of Concern in Children’s Drawings of Environmental Crisis
Biography
Joel Best
